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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

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